Yeomanstown
Yeomanstown is a townland in the civil parish of Carragh, barony of Clane, Co. Kildare. Its name in Irish is Baile an Ghíománaigh.
- Area
- 173.7 ha
- 429 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 1,760 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential / Infill
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Yeomanstown, from 17 m² to 1,218,412 m² (121.84 ha, 301.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 63 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Caragh, Kildare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Caragh, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Mar 2026N/a
for 1 no. 3 bedroom, single storey, detached dwelling, new vehicular & pedestrian entrance onto existing estate road and all associated site works on site of circa. 0.113 Ha.
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660236
25 Apr 2025Conditional
for (A) Retention Permission for the erection of steel storage shed for domestic use and (B) Retention Permission for the gravel access driveway serving the steel shed and all associated site works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2560433
27 Oct 2024Conditional
for 43 solar powered 60 Watt integrated lights and ancillary works, spaced 17m apart and 4m in height along the northeast, southeast, southwest and northwest sides of the site following the existing footpath
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461126
14 Dec 2023Refused
a proposed development comprising the construction of a single storey detached dwelling & associated single storey detached domestic garage, the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, new entrance onto existing lane and all associated site works including setting back of existing roadside boundary hedge to achieve required sightlines all located on site of circa. 0.96 Ha
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2360483
18 Sept 2018Conditional
widening the existing shared recessed entrance to provide a separate gated entrance and driveway on part of the existing paddock of my property and all associated site development works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 181144
12 Sept 2018N/a
Widening the existing shared recessed entrance to provide a separate gated entrance and driveway on part of the existing paddock of my property and all associated site development works.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 181110
14 Jun 2018Conditional
refurbishment and upgrading of existing thatched cottage, a protected structure (Ref B18-21), to include construction of new single storey extension to rear and glazed link following demolition of existing single storey kitchen extension; conversion of existing single storey storage space at side of house to living accommodation by addition of a pitched roof and rear window; construction of new detached garage; upgrading of the existing vehicular site entrance involving construction of new roadside wall and repositioning of disused an post letter box; erection of parkland fencing and Pallisade fencing to boundaries and the installation of Solido Smart BL6 waste water treatment tank with Premier Tech Ecoflo tertiary filter
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18705
1 Jun 2018N/a
refurbishment and upgrading of existing thatched cottage, a protected structure, to include construction of new single storey extension to rear and glazed link following demolition of existing single storey kitchen extension; conversion of existing single storey storage space at side of house to living accommodation by addition of a pitched roof; construction of new detached garage; upgrading of the existing vehicular site entrance and repositioning of disused an post letter box; erection to boundaries of fencing and railing to the top of the wall onto the road and the installation of Solido Smart BL6 waste water treatment tank with Premier Tech Ecoflo tertiary filter
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18652
21 Apr 2017Conditional
demolition of 2 no. existing outbuildings, demolition of existing single storey extension structures and construction of new two-storey extension with two-storey glazed access and circulation atrium to the northern gable side of the existing dwelling, construction of new single storey glazed extension to the southern elevation of the existing dwelling, construction of new entrance porch to the western side / front elevation and all associated site works. Revised by significant further information to include a new on site waste water treatment system
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17449
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Yeomanstown.
Recorded monuments
- KD018-034 Enclosure
Description
Visible on an aerial photo (GSI N 375-6) as the cropmark of a small circular enclosure. No visible surface trace of the feature survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Yeomanstown.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Yeomanstown, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2686 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Yeomanstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Yeomanstown · Baile an Ghíománaigh
- Area
- 1,737,182 m² (173.72 ha, 429.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clane
- Electoral division
- Carragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,854 people lived in 563 households in the Carragh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carragh, Gingerstown, Halverstown, Moortown, Morristown Lower, Newhall, Raheens, Thomastown
- Placenames
- Yeomanstown on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.